CVE-2016-3104

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.

Affected products

MongoDB: 2.4.0, 2.6.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378

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